Infinity Operation: Icestorm Gets Awesome Cover Art!
July 4, 2014 by brennon
So we've seen the cover for the actual set but Corvus Belli have also now shown off the cover art for the booklet in the game too. See what you think of this rather fancy piece for Infinity Operation: Icestorm...
Once again it shows the clash between the two sides and gives a hint as to the kind of engagement you're going to be fighting. Can you spell ambush? I do love the miniatures for Infinity the world is aching to be played around in. It does raise the question in my mind of how likely it would be to see a role-playing game set within their universe.
I guess on some level the game already acts like a role-playing game with each character acting in a very independent and characterful way.
What do you think of the art?
From my understanding poking around in forums, Infinity actually did start as an RPG, but it worked so well as a wargame they focused on making it a competitive game. I bet after a bit of polish, they’ll release it as an RPG that either focuses on Cooperative gameplay with some AI mechanic (fits the theme nicely) to control the baddies or mess around with AROs a bit to add an RPG feel. I wouldn’t think releasing a RPG like D&D or something along the lines would do. It would have to be focused on ALEPH, Hassassin, Mercentary or the… Read more »
They created the Infinity universe playing an RPG, but decided against publishing their own RPG for the usual sane reasons a miniatures company does not (or should not) embark in a publishing adventure (plus the usual questions of a sci fi setting like what would the PCs really be?).
They decided instead of making Infinity as we know and I am glad about that.
That explains the D20s then
I recall a Infinity RPG a long time ago, played in a competition in 2003 and was really poor but i feel it was just a poor GM tbh.
what is the big red guy ? a re-sculp of brigada ??
Indeed, doesn’t he look great?